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Disaster Expert: Weather Warfare Hasn't Stopped Under Trump—Are You Ready for What's Coming? · Man in America Podcast

• 0:13
  Seth Holehouse: Welcome to Man in America, a voice of reason in a world gone bad. I'm your host, Seth Mulhouse. One of the things that is very, very important to me is preparedness. Now five, six years ago, I was living in a high rise building in Manhattan. And though I had my little bug out bag and I had a few knives because you couldn't get guns in Manhattan unless you're a criminal, I was so underprepared.
• 0:39
  But this is before COVID even started. I just had this inkling of I need to be more prepared for whatever happens. And so fast forward now, and my wife and I, we've got two beautiful children, a four year old and a one year old, Grace and June. And we're living on seven acres out in the middle of nowhere. We're surrounded by forests.
• 0:59
  We just bought the house last year, and so this spring, I can't wait to build out our gardens, and we've got chickens. We're getting some goats soon. We've got a couple of dogs. And these are the changes that that that I've made and that Kate, my wife, and I have made, as a way to protect our family and as a way to have more resilience so that if there's a grid down scenario or if there's a long term power outage or natural disaster that we have what it takes to make sure our family is safe and protected to defend ourselves. We also have food.
• 1:28
  We've got seeds. We've got generators. We have all the things that that matter. And so, you've probably been you know, maybe you're aware, maybe you're not, but I've also got a book coming out over the course of next couple of months called prep like Noah. And so that you can tell I'm very passionate about this, and I'm actually writing a book about it.
• 1:45
  And it's meant to be more of a a prepping one zero one for a book for people that, you know, have a good knowledge about prepping, but maybe missing a few areas or people that are brand new to it. And they don't wanna be they're they're a little bit confused or a little bit overwhelmed when they see these thick prepping books written by these Navy SEAL search and rescue operators, and it's really written to be a book that is for the general purpose. But along with that book, I'm gonna be doing a lot more content on preparedness because even though right now, our country seems relatively calm, I mean, though, yes, Trump is in office and there's some bonuses with that, but I'm not sure about you, but I still feel like something isn't quite right. I feel like there's still something coming that we shouldn't be resting ourselves right now and thinking, oh, it's gonna be okay. The government will take care of us.
• 2:35
  It just is knowing. This is feeling that we're not free and clear yet, and we have to take this time to be more prepared. And so as part of that, obviously, I have the book coming out. I'm gonna be doing a lot more interviews, a lot more content on different aspects of preparedness. And so today, my guest is my good friend, Tina Blanco.
• 2:53
  So she is the owner of Satellite Phone Store. She understands the importance of communication. And communication, actually, I've got this little satellite phone right here. This is, in my opinion, one of the most overlooked aspects of preparedness. Maybe you've got food, you've got bullets, you've got seeds, but a simple sat phone could be the one thing that you're missing.
• 3:16
  And I even for myself, this is actually one of the last prepping items I got. Right? I had all my food and bullets and seeds and generators and medical equipment and water purification and livestock. I had all those things done before I even got my sat phone, but actually, now that I've studied it more, I've realized that this is actually one of the most foundational, most important things about being prepared. And so, again, as part of these the series I'll be doing on preparedness and bringing on experts, having Tina join as an expert in communication, as someone that has been boots on the ground in disaster areas all over the world, understanding the role of communication, I think, is so important for us.
• 3:56
  So please enjoy the interview. And also a quick reminder that every show that I do is always done as a podcast as well as a video. So if you're watching on a video platform such as Rumble or YouTube, you can also go to your favorite podcast app, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Podbean, etcetera, search for Man in America and subscribe on there, and you can get every show done as audio as well so you can be listening to my lovely calm voice as you're mowing your lawn, you know, changing a diaper, whatever it is that you do. Alright. Please enjoy the interview with Tina Blanco.
• 4:30
  Tina Blanco, it is such a pleasure to have you back on the show. Thank you very much for joining us today.
• 4:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Thank you so much for having me, and and we just met up in Tulsa accidentally. So that was kinda cool. So we do have a lot to talk about. So yeah.
• 4:48
  Thanks.
• 4:49
  Seth Holehouse: Absolutely. Yeah. It was it was fun. We're we're both there for one of Clay Clark's events, and it was a business event. And, I got to meet Robert Kiyosaki for the first time, and Eric Trump was there.
• 4:59
  And then I bumped into you, and we had dinner, and it was just it was wonderful. But, of course, we risked, you know, talking each other's ears off, and, it was a it laid a great foundation for having a show today. So I'm I'm excited for this discussion.
• 5:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's always nice to meet up places where there's a lot of patriots. And then and then running into people the unexpected, like running into you and a few other people that I, you know, that I wanted that I've been wanting to meet for a long time, that was really cool. So those things are really cool. I'm definitely gonna go to the next one in June.
• 5:30
  So yeah. So
• 5:33
  Seth Holehouse: Wonderful. So there's as as I told you, as the the audience knows, I've I've got a book coming out called prep like Noah. And we're we're I I should have the overall launch date ready for it soon. We're we're we're going, you know, very serious with it. It's gonna be a nice, you know, printed bound book.
• 5:50
  But as part of, you know, working out towards the books, I'm gonna be focusing a lot more on preparedness overall on the channel, which is something I've always done intermittently. But there's part of me, there's just this sense inside of me that is telling me that it's more important now than ever to be prepared. And I feel like that there's a lot of people now that Trump is back in and and there's no threat of Kamala being our president that they've removed that sense of urgency, and they're more relaxed and thinking, oh, things are taken care of. The government's gonna take care of me. And that's the thing is whenever I hear anyone say or think like that where, well, the government's gonna take care of me, it's like red flags and and warning signs go off.
• 6:35
  And so you're someone that understands preparedness better than most people that I know, and there's a lot of different aspects of of preparedness I wanna be talking to you about. But specifically, so, you know, as part of one thing that you do that you're involved with, you run the the nation's largest satellite phone store. And so you understand the importance of communication in a in a grid down scenario or a disaster scenario. And so let me first just allow you to introduce what you do with with sat phones and with Starlink and just give us just a little bit of your background because it's really helpful in understanding why you're somebody that knows when you've come into a, you know, you've been on the ground in a post hurricane or post earthquake, whatever, you see why communication is so important and how lack of communication is deadly in these situations.
• 7:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So the reason why I even started the company, it was December 2004, I think it was December 26, was because of the tsunami. And I was sitting there watching the news and there's nothing you could do, you know, I think over three hundred thousand people died because number one, you know, they weren't prepared. They didn't go to high grounds or, you know, they didn't realize, but there were a lot of people that could have been saved had they had communication. And that's when I started looking into communication, because when they found bodies, they're like, Oh, this person, you know, away, you know, a day ago, they would have been saved, begotten to them.
• 8:10
  This, you know, so, or this family even. So, this is when I realized how important communication was, and that's when I realized that I needed to do something about it. Did some research, realized that there is communication that will work no matter what happens, tsunami, hurricanes, tornadoes, it doesn't matter. You can't take the cell towers down. When in 02/2005 is when I started the company.
• 8:36
  Of course, that year we got hit with Hurricane Katrina and that was a big learning experience for me. That's kind of like where the whole idea of prepping comes from. And then since then, I've been getting a lot of, into a lot of prepping, trying to figure out how, you know, people can, how we can help people. I've been teaming up with a lot of first responders that I work with so that when there is an emergency, I can at least give them the communication and, you know, or help them with getting food out to people, you know, raise money or whatever the needs are at the time. And as you know, the most recent one was in North Carolina and in Los Angeles fires, where we put those two, put those, the boots on the ground to help people and communication for people so that they can communicate.
• 9:28
  Seth Holehouse: And so let let's take North Carolina as an example because this was an area that you could look at and think these are the kinds of people that would have been preppers. Right? Oftentimes, the people that live in the hills, live in the country. They weren't living in LA. You know, they they had chosen to live a a very rural life.
• 9:47
  And a lot of them had food supplies, and they had guns. They had a lot of things that you typically associate with with prepping. But what's interesting is that even in my own journey of preparedness, satellite phones and and communication were one of the last things I I understood. I I started off in getting, okay, make sure I got lots of food. Okay.
• 10:08
  How much food do I need? And doing the calculations. Okay. Looking at how do I defend that food? What kind of guns?
• 10:13
  What kind of ammunition is required? And what kind of, you know, body armor, plate carriers, etcetera? You know, getting into, then, you know, getting into generators and energy. But communication, I I find, is one of those things that's oftentimes overlooked, especially if you have all your bases covered. Like, you've got water, you've got food, you have all those bases covered, you think, okay.
• 10:33
  I'm okay. But a lot of times in these kinds of scenarios, like, say, North Carolina, for instance, you know, we're we're we're used to having our cell phones, and we think, okay. Well, the cell phone is a cell phone, and I can just pick up my phone and call somebody. But how common is it when there's a disaster situation like that? How common is it that the actual the cell the the towers are down?
• 10:54
  I mean, do people do they just do do they lose the ability to communicate completely? Is that common?
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. So any any kind of a a storm, hurricane, tornado, and especially with a hurricane because the, the, cell tower companies or the cell companies can't get to fix the cell towers because there's floods, the roads are, down. So it takes, you know, some weeks, sometimes months. Sometimes, you know, in some areas and Lahaina still cell towers, cell services go bad, and this has been almost two years. So yeah, it does take a long time to get to them.
• 11:35
  So, the only thing that does work is the satellite phones. And I have to tell you, we got calls from like mayors from small towns that needed satellite phones and didn't have satellite phones. So, we had to, we drove a van, a van full of communications, Starlinks and satellite phones, as close as we can to the area. And then we have our first responders. I don't know if you know him.
• 11:56
  His name is Steve Slupsovic.
• 11:57
  Seth Holehouse: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, they were taking helicopters with food and communication and dropping them off to the people so that we can communicate with them to find out, know, I guess they had troops on the ground so that we can find the people that needed like baby formulas, insulin, and things like that, so that we can bring them the right products and not just, you know, a helicopter full of water didn't do any good when, you know, we needed baby formulas in some of the areas. And this whole thing was just, I mean, just watching Steve Slopsovic and his team, and all the conservatives that got together. So, Steve calls me up and says, Tina, you know, we need gas, and my credit cards are all maxed out and, you know, we gotta, we, you know, people need help. So I, you know, I give them my credit cards and then my credit cards were maxed out.
• 12:53
  And then, we were like, okay, we need to raise money. So we raised, so I called Mike Adams and Mike's like, oh, I'm gonna send truckloads of food. And he sent like over $300,000 with food to Samaritan's Purse where we were located to bring the food. And we talked about it and I think we raised over $350,000 in two days. And he was taking, you know, helicopters, food, medicine, everything.
• 13:24
  That was just so cool watching it together. But it all took communication. Without communication, it was nothing. And I have to say, Seth, we brought in a lot of Starlinks it was like costing us a lot of money. We're, you know, we're a medium size to a large company and we can only take so much, you know, paying for everything.
• 13:47
  So, you know, and the Starlinks cost us about $600 each and, and, and Amir wanted 20 phones and this other. So it was costing us like over, well over $100,000 in donations on equipments and services. But one of the great things that came out of it is that the time Trump called Elon Musk and said, can you help the people? He gave free service. So, so anyone that used the service in that area, we didn't get billed for it.
• 14:20
  And that was such a relief. And we were just so grateful for that. A lot of people don't know that It didn't just help the folks on the ground. It really did help our company as well.
• 14:30
  Seth Holehouse: And so what's interesting is that because I've I've talked to you a handful of times, and I've heard, you know, talk you talked to Mike Adams. I've I've heard also heard him talk about this as well, but is that you would think that your average first responder or a police force in, say, a small town, that they would have their own, you know, sat phones, that they'd have all this equipment. But it was shocking to learn that a lot of these first responder teams, even they don't have satellite communication. And and how so how common is that? Because if we're looking at the fact I'm I'm curious how many households just general households in America have sat phones, let alone the first responders.
• 15:08
  It just seems like people are so underprepared. So of all the phones that you're donating, how many are going to the fire state fire stations, police stations, people you think would have this communication already?
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, take a look at the there's a video of Gavin Newsom of California at the fire zone after the fires and a lady runs up to him. It's a famous video and says, I want to talk to you. He's like, I'm trying to call the president of United States, at the time it was Biden. And then she's like, well, I want to talk to him. So he hands her a phone and he's like, look, but there's no service.
• 15:49
  And I'm like, how does the governor, right? The governor of one of the largest or the most biggest economy in the country not have a satellite phone. And that kind of tells you what's happening. And then we witnessed it in Hawaii, right? So in Hawaii, when 911 service was down, they did not have satellite, backup satellite.
• 16:11
  So 911 service, you couldn't call 911. So again, the first responders that we work with that are private, by the way, they're not government because as you know, in North Carolina, the government, the FEMA didn't show up till about seven days later. And then they offered, I think, what is it, dollars 700? It was like, and so that was so insane to me. And so, when the first responders were, our guys, the guys that we support, not our guys, Steve Slopsovic's team is amazing.
• 16:43
  He had grounds, people in Lahaina, and what they did is when they found burned victims that were just sitting, trying to cool off at the beach or anywhere, they were able to call the neighboring islands to bring help to take these folks to the hospital. So that's how important satellite phones were to when there is a disaster.
• 17:03
  Seth Holehouse: And, also, one thing that I I hadn't really thought through before is even having the ability to communicate with your family. Because I know that I heard these stories of these regions in North Carolina where, you know, one family home would have either a Starlink or a Sat phone, and all the neighbors were were lining up and and to use that one sat phone even after, say, a couple of days. Imagine this is imagine if, say, you know, your family member lives in the hills somewhere, and they have mudslides and hurricanes, and you can't call them. And I imagine for four days, you can't get ahold of them. You're freaking out.
• 17:40
  And so even the ability just to call that person and to say, hey, just so you know, I'm okay, or to say, hey, I'm okay. However, we don't have power. Our insulin's gonna be going bad soon. Or, you know, hey, you know, Mary got a really bad cut in her leg, it looks infected, we need to get her antibiotics. It's just it's incredible to think about what that means is to have just that basic communication, but also what it means to not have it.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Right. So you're absolutely right. One person in the whole community. If they have one, it helps the whole community. We experienced it really, really big during Hurricane Maria, which was in Puerto Rico.
• 18:21
  And so during Hurricane Maria, we experienced it where we had, so we have a location in Sarasota, and at this time it was too late to get to Puerto Rico. We had already shipped all the phones that we could possibly ship, which was thousands and thousands of phones to first responders, military, everybody, because we knew that the whole island's grid was going to go down. Pharmaceutical company, everything, every company, everything was down. And we experienced it where we had so many moms and dads and sisters and brothers in our office in Sarasota crying because they couldn't get ahold of their family and their family did not have a satellite phone. And the reason why they were in our office, because they figured that we know someone that had a sat phone in their region, that they can get the phone number of that person so they can call them to go check on their mom or dad or what have you.
• 19:21
  And as it turned out, it did work because we were like, okay, I mean, it was a mess. We couldn't really work that day other than just help people. So we did connect people to people in the zone that had families that, you know, they had to walk, some people had to walk like about a mile to get to a family member to have them call the mom so that the mom can sleep at night and, or the dad or the sister or people checking up on their parents. So it is very crucial. The unknown for family, if they don't know if you're okay, the stress level is alone worth having a satellite phone because it limits.
• 20:01
  And you don't know when the next disaster is gonna be. I don't think people in Maui realize that one day, all of a sudden, almost 100% of the island was gonna be, I had no communication. And I don't think people in North Carolina realized, when Milton was coming, I was in Sarasota, I was thinking it's gonna come to us because we had just gone through another hurricane Dolly. And so, so I was there trying to have a place there and I was there trying to straighten out my place, you know, fix things. And then you see hurricane Helene coming and I was like, oh no.
• 20:41
  And then it passed us and it went north. And then after that, got, we got, obviously we got hit with the hurricane. What was the last one? Was it Milton? Yeah.
• 20:52
  Hurricane Milton and then not that destroyed everything else that was left at my place, but that's okay. It's getting fixed. But that's kind of like the way it happens is you don't know, no one knew it was gonna go to North Carolina. People in North Carolina had no idea that it was gonna hit them. So it's always good to be prepared.
• 21:11
  You never know when the next earthquake, hurricane, tornado, or just hacks. We've also experienced people hacking AT and T and others in the past year. So always have a backup communication, It's not that expensive, Seth. I just want to mention that the difference between a cell phone and a satellite phone. Cell phones work on 7% of the earth, satellite phones work on 100% of the earth.
• 21:40
  This is your cell tower. Your cell tower is connected to your phone and it connects direct to the satellite. So, no storm is gonna come or no war or hack is gonna come and hack or do anything to your own personal cell tower. So, you take this outside from anywhere on the planet. It doesn't matter whatever happens, you are able to make a call and you just go outside and extend it.
• 22:07
  And you can call to any number from any number. So, anyone that can receive a call, they can use the phone. You don't have to have a satellite phone on the other end.
• 22:16
  Seth Holehouse: So I have the same model here. It's just the Iridium. Right? Yeah. So this basically, which, so I've got two things.
• 22:24
  I've got I've got the sat phone. I've got the bivy stick. This is what I got for my family, and and and I want you to explain the bivy stick in a second here. But so basically, whereas a cell phone, my cell phone is connecting to a series of towers that are physical structures on Earth that can be damaged by a grid down scenario, a hurricane, etcetera. So the cell phones are connecting those towers, whereas so these cell these sat phones, this goes directly to the satellite.
• 22:53
  So literally, so a % of the Earth's surface, this phone will work.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Right. And your Stick as well. So the Bivy Stick, as you know, it turns your cell phone into a two way satellite communicator. It also gives you the local weather, so if the weather changes, you're able to, if the weather changes or if you get stuck, anywhere, you're able to call out. It uses the same 66 Iridium towers recently in Arizona.
• 23:24
  You know, I live in Arizona. A lot of times there was a, there's a hike called the Havasu Pai and it was people hike it during last, this was last summer. And then the storm came, the water flood and everything and it, about 100 people were stranded. One person had a satellite phone, he was able to call, and 100 people were rescued. Well over a hundred people were rescued.
• 23:56
  One person did pass away, got taken in the wash, but that's all it takes. It's just one satellite phone, one person to have a satellite phone when there is an emergency. And again, you know, I go hiking all the time, but I'm always aware of the flash flood, especially, you know, in the areas that I'm in. You never know when they happen. In the summer, it could be sunny as can be, it looks like a great day, no warning whatsoever, flash flood is can wipe you out.
• 24:30
  Seth Holehouse: So explain how the Bivy Stick works because that this is very interesting. It's easy to think that you need to have this phone to carry around with you, but, yeah, just just explain, like, the function of the Bivy Stick, because this this is fascinating to me. I first I first heard about this on Mike Adams. Bivy Stick. Bivy he always talks about Bivy Stick.
• 24:47
  And I got one. I like, oh, it makes sense now, but walk us through how this device works.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so the reason why people do like the Baby Stick, because it is light, I think it weighs like about three ounces, so a lot of hikers like to take it. So, what it does is it turns your phone, you download the app before you leave, and then your phone becomes a two way texting from anywhere on earth. So you put your phone on airplane mode because you don't need it. And plus, if you don't have it on airplane mode, you're gonna drain a battery when you're hiking or camping or anything because when it tries to get a signal, it drains out the battery. And then, so now you are able to communicate by text to anyone from anywhere on the planet.
• 25:33
  And that's usually really big with hikers. And one of the reasons why people do buy those, because they are a little bit cheaper, the unit is free, the service is only like about $60 a month for unlimited texting. And now you're able to text if there's a storm, if cell towers get hacked, if there's If for any reason cell towers are down and as you know, cell towers are fragile, the hackers probably take us down if they really wanted to in a split second. They can't take the satellites down. They can take down a satellite.
• 26:07
  I think Russia had threatened that they would take a satellite down, but Iridium has 66. They've got about seven or eight backups. A while back, a few years ago, there was a collision between a Russian satellite and an Iridium satellite, and Iridium was able to bring back that satellite from the backup within just a few weeks, but there was no downtime in the area because the other, 65 satellites were able to handle, every single call.
• 26:38
  Seth Holehouse: I see. So, basically, what what the Bigasick does is this becomes a satellite transponder, and you connect a phone to it or multiple phones to it. Right? And Yeah. So say, you know, you've got a kid at college, hypothetically.
• 26:53
  You give them one of these things they carried around them. If something happens, your your child can still connect with this, still text you even when the entire cell network network is down, or say you've got that same child is going on, you know, spring break or going, you know, hiking in the Amazon. Right? A place where there's no chance they'd have cell phone service. This they still have basically, it may this baby stick allows you to send a text message from anywhere in the entire world and receive a text message as well.
• 27:21
  Is that how how it works?
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Yep. You can send and receive. And one of the big benefit of that is the fact that it does give you a map and it does give you weather. And those are extremely important because, I don't know about you, but I have no sense of direction whatsoever. I need a GPS, you know, or a map so I can find my way out when I'm, when I go off grid or, or go hiking, you know, in areas where there aren't very many people.
• 27:50
  So it's really nice to have that, the GPS to be able to find your way out.
• 27:56
  Seth Holehouse: And so, you you mentioned that the Baby Stick is around $60 a month, and the device comes with that. I also see here it has a little SOS button on there. So let's just say that you're in a car accident or you're hiking and there's an accident, just kind of press and hold that, and does it then send an SOS signal with your exact location to emergency services?
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: So, Iridium is all about privacy, right? So, people, this is the reason why the military uses Iridium network, because a lot of times they don't want to be found. Privacy, text messages can't be read by anyone other than the person you send in to. Phone calls can't be listened in on. Nobody can find your location.
• 28:40
  But the Baby Stick does have a feature. There's two of them. There's a feature where you register five people that you trust and you put a, you create it. So, even if you don't have your cell phone or your smartphone with you, you put five people that you trust and you type in a pre message that you've pre done. It's like mine says, if you're getting this message, I'm in trouble.
• 29:05
  So, then that message goes to five people with my location. So, if there is an emergency that I, if I have an emergency, if something happened, I don't know, anything, I could be, you know, kidnapped, I don't care. And you know, just about anything, you know, I just push that button and those five people will get my location that I trusted and pre did before. And, you know, they will know that I'm in trouble. The other thing, the other one is you have to register it.
• 29:34
  You have to register it. And yes, once you register, I think there is a small fee. It might be like $30 or $40 a year. I'm not sure what it is, but that's for people that do go hiking. We actually had one person use it last year that we know of.
• 29:51
  That was in a motorcycle, they were off roading in a motorcycle and he fell and broke his leg and he pushed a button and they came and rescued him with a helicopter and got him to the hospital. So, so it could be, it could be either or, so you can use both or just use the free feature that, that gives you five people that you totally trust. Or, you know, you could just do one, up to one. I I I used it. I was testing it, and I used it before I told my husband.
• 30:22
  And I pushed the button, and my message got to him, and he texted me back, call 911.
• 30:28
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• 32:19
  Speaker 2: But now but now he knows. He knows if that if I press the button, that it really is an emergency. It was you know? So yeah.
• 32:27
  Seth Holehouse: I I see. And so walk us through how the pricing for the sat phone works. Because before I I got one myself, I had this perception that, okay, cell phones are already expensive. Easily $50, a hundred bucks a month for a cell phone with all the data and, you know, five g and all that kind of stuff that they use to track us. And I I'd always I had this idea that, oh, well, Satphone probably is gonna cost, like, $2,000 for the phone.
• 32:51
  It's gonna be, you know, a couple hundred bucks a month. And I just thought that that's only something for military contractors and and government officials, and it it seemed like it was too expensive for civilian use or just for an average person like me. But I was surprised at how inexpensive it was and also how the minutes roll over. So, walk us through, like, what is the cost of a sat phone? Because of all the things that you can do for being prepared, obviously, having food, you know, some some silver, some gold, which we wouldn't talk about that, you know, a nice handgun you trained with whatever it is.
• 33:25
  I I honestly, this is the one thing I would say that you need to have is a sat phone or at a minimum a bivy stick, which again is $60 a month. We'll cancel your Netflix and your your, you know, whatever your Paramount plus subscription. There's there's half your bivy stick price, but I would say this is probably one of the most important tools for preparedness, and it's far more affordable than I thought it was. So walk us through how the pricing works for these.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Okay. So the satellite phones, obviously, as you know, they're not they're they are expensive. They're still expensive. They're They're about $1,300 each for the form that you have in your hand. So our company at sat123.com, we have made it affordable.
• 34:07
  It's free. You just got to sign up on a twenty four month agreement. And Seth, it is like $99 a month. You get a hundred minutes a month and we include the phone. The reason why we do a twenty four month agreement on this particular phone, because it does take about twenty two months for us to break even from service and the cost of the phone.
• 34:27
  But we do have another phone, which is an MRSAT phone. The difference between MRSAT and Iridium, I just want to point out, is that Iridium covers the whole planet, the whole earth, 100%. The Marsat covers about 90% of the earth. The only place it doesn't cover is the North Pole and the South Pole. So, if you have no plans of going to the North Pole, Alaska, for example, Antarctica, or the South Pole, then the MRSAT phone will be great.
• 34:54
  The MRSAT phone is only a fifteen month agreement. And the reason why we do the fifteen month, because I think the fourteenth month is the magic number for us to the breakeven to cover the cost of the phone. After that, month to month, can downgrade, you can change a plan, you can go on standby, you can do whatever you want. But it's always nice having one of those. A lot of times you do know when an emergency is coming.
• 35:20
  A lot of times, you know by the news, you know if there's a hurricane coming. Then you can go off the emergency standby mode and power them back up. In California, you don't know when the earthquake is coming, unfortunately. California, you really gotta be prepared because anytime we can get hit with an earthquake and you could be the one person that could be the, this, you know, that you can help your whole community. So we highly, highly recommend that at least in every community, one person should have a satellite phone.
• 35:54
  And then also one person should have a Starlink. Have you have you seen these? I know you're getting yours, right? It's in the mail.
• 36:00
  Seth Holehouse: Yeah. Yeah. Just, I ordered it last week. It hasn't come in yet, but because I still have the I have the like, one of the old school, like like, the first gen Starlinks that was has the the tripod that was made for, like, the RVs. And I thought I was like and I've used it before.
• 36:14
  Sometimes, you know, when I've had to do an interview, and if the Internet was down, so we've got we have a whole house generator. We've got multiple different kinds of generators, and so but sometimes when the power goes out where I'm at, the Internet also goes out, and I can't turn a generator on to have my Internet come back on. So I've used the, Starlink. But walk me through because I haven't seen this. I I can't wait to get it actually.
• 36:35
  So walk walk us through this.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So this is it. This is the whole thing. All you need is power. So you can just, when you call, you can call, you can go to sat123.com.
• 36:46
  You can get this for free. You just, you just have to sign up for twelve month agreement and the price is pretty much the same as Starlink. So we're not, you know, it's not anymore. It's actually, if anything, it's a look the service is a little bit less. This is the whole thing.
• 37:01
  You just take this outside. You you this is the stand. It's in the back. And you just put it out there and just generate bring power to it. If you're out hiking or camping, it's so light to take with you.
• 37:14
  All you need is a battery pack and a small solar panel, even like a 10 solar panel to power up the battery pack and then you just plug it in. And now you literally can, you can do your podcasts from anywhere on the planet. You can go to, you know, you'd be in the middle of the ocean and, or in a desert or, you know, Alaska, wherever you, you can go anywhere on the planet and have high speed internet. And then also you could use your smartphone through the wifi to make phone calls as well and send text messages. So this thing is very, very nice.
• 37:51
  We are offering it for free. You do have to sign up for twelve month of service. And then after that, again, you're just month to month, and those are really, really nice to have. And as we saw during Hurricane Helene in North Carolina, and the previous year in Florida as well, Elon Musk donated these Starlinks to Ron DeSantis at the time when we had that big hurricane that went through Fort Myers because it took down, everything was down. There was no connection, even where I'm at in Sarasota, cause it came up that far, our service was down and we had to use the Starlink to communicate at the time.
• 38:32
  So, you never know. Those are, and they're so easy, they're so light and you can carry it in your backpack and just have it. And when there is an emergency, when the Internet or cell towers are are down, you just take this out, and now you're you're connected, you can continue working or streaming or watching movies, whatever whatever you normally do.
• 38:54
  Seth Holehouse: Well, and one thing also I'm thinking about with that is let's just say that there is some sort of emergency, and since you have you have to take responsibility for, say, an injury or setting up, say, a fracture. Say, your spouse breaks her leg, you know, and you got no service, you have nothing, you can go find a YouTube video. I mean, as silly as it sounds, you know, the Internet gives you access to so many resources, and there's a lot of things that, or say you have to look up, okay. How do I purify water with household products? I didn't put aside water.
• 39:27
  I'm worried about drinking the water from the the the river. You having access to information like that, you can go figure it out, which, again, in a scenario where there's a disaster, access to that kind of information is so critical. It's also why one of the biggest recommendations I have is for people to build a library. Like, we've, you know, we've got a physical library of printed books. This is also why I'm writing a book on this is that having a printed book and a printed manual is so important for emergency medicine, you know, cures, how to, you know, hunt and how to trap game, how to prepare things, how to can, etcetera.
• 40:01
  Really, really important. But, again, having if you on top of that, you've got access to the Internet. I mean, you could be sitting in in a complete disaster zone doing a FaceTime with grandma back at home and saying, hey. Look. We're okay.
• 40:13
  And everyone else is kinda suffering, but we're alive. And, I mean, what's the value of that? And so the Starlink, I forget how much we're paying for ours, but how much is the monthly for Starlink?
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It is under 200. It's pretty much almost unlimited. There is a there is a limit, but we've set it up to where you pretty much can't go over. And it's just under $200 and the unit is free.
• 40:40
  So yeah, and you could use this, you can use this like at your home, you can get rid of your regular internet at home, or if you have, you know, an RV or just want one for emergency, they're just so amazing to have on hand. And earlier when we started, you were talking about, yeah, right now it's calm. I always tell people, it's always the calm before the storm. You to be ready. The calm before the storm always gets you.
• 41:09
  I remember a couple of years ago, we had no hurricanes the whole year and it was just like so calm and we were like, there's something going on and bam, we got hit with a major hurricane. But that's the way things happen. I actually cannot wait to get you booked. I am all about preparedness. I don't watch anything other than prep shows.
• 41:30
  I mean, shows that show you how to survive, survival shows. So, I go back to all these years that they've been making all these survival shows because I didn't watch them, I didn't have time. And I just, that's all I watch. I'm just learning how to survive right now, being a survivalist, because I just feel like something is going to happen and I'm gonna need to be able to protect my family and learn. And I can't wait to read your book.
• 41:58
  I can't wait till it comes out. Is it next month, right?
• 42:01
  Seth Holehouse: So I think we'll probably start presales next month, and then but we're determining the when we're gonna actually have the official launch. It could be it might be sometime in May, June, but we're because initially, I you know, I started writing it towards the, you know, kind of second half towards the end of last year, and I was just gonna do an ebook and just say, okay. Hey. Just an ebook, and it was kinda simple, but I'm actually and I think I think I might I'm not sure if I showed you the design for it, but now it's I I've got excited about it, and so we're we're doing a really comprehensive book, full color illustrations, all kinds of stuff. And it's really the book is is it's really meant to be more of a prepping one zero one.
• 42:40
  It's not for the, you know, Steve. He he's not gonna learn much from it. This guy's a master of survival. It's really written for the person that that you and I, like, you know, it's a passion of ours, but we still live regular lives. We're not army instructors.
• 42:54
  We're not getting dropped into, know, you know, hot territories in Afghanistan to survive. It's about how to basically, to, you know, do what needs to be done to make sure your family is taken care of. And it's really it it kind of the reason why I called it yeah. I named it prep like Noah is it goes back to the original story of Noah and how God spoke to him, and and he, you know, he had this feeling that he needs to prepare. He was being told that something is coming.
• 43:22
  And, you know, similar to you, as much as I, you know, feel like right now America seems relatively calm, relatively, I'd say, there's just some part of me that is thinking it is until it isn't. And I know that there's a lot of people again that wanna say, oh, if we can finally relax. I'm actually the opposite. I think that right now, it's God has given us a window to prepare and to be prepared. And I just I just don't think that we're just gonna enter into this golden age under Trump, and there's gonna be no more enemies.
• 43:55
  The deep state's gonna give up. I I think that, if anything, that things are gonna intensify, and that's just what my gut tells me. I hope I'm wrong. I hope that I've got all this food I never have to eat. Right?
• 44:06
  But if I if I'm right, even a little bit, I I wanna make sure that I'm prepared for it.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I agree. So, you know, I do wanna talk about, you know, my opinion on gold and silver, but on food, you know, what I normally do just to kind of let you know is I buy food for like two to three years supply, because I mean, I have grandkids and lots of family and, you know, and I came from, originally I came from Iraq, so I know what starvation is like. I went through it the first eleven years of my life. And so, I'm very prepared.
• 44:42
  And one of the things that I normally do with it is every five years, it's good usually for fifteen to thirty years, but every five years I just recycle it. It's simple. I donate it and then I replace it. I donate it and then it makes me feel good for donating it. And, you know, I get, you know, I recycle it.
• 45:00
  I mean, get new ones and it helps Patriots that I'm buying it from because most of the people that are selling the freeze dried food and the prep food are usually Patriots and that's where I buy from. And I think you recommend someone as well, or you have someone that you recommend, and you know, I'd love to get my next batch, which is, you know, when it comes up in five years when I donate, but that's what I like to do. Now, go ahead. Do you you have Oh, sorry.
• 45:30
  Seth Holehouse: I was gonna pull their website up really quick. Actually, let me, let's see. It's just heaven's harvest, is the company that I I love. They're, like, beautiful Christian people that own it. Patriots, absolutely patriots Patriots through and through.
• 45:44
  And, yeah, the a lot of my so I've got a whole different type of selection of my food storage. A lot of it is just, you know, five gallon buckets. It's dried beans or wheat berries in a five gallon bucket. A lot of it is in cans. We have a freeze dryer, so we've freeze dried a lot of our own food.
• 46:01
  But I also got a I have a bunch of, food buckets, you know, these number 10 cans like that from Heaven's Harvest. They've also got the, they have the big buckets. So this is you know, I use them a lot as well. They're they're great, good people, like these food buckets right here, for instance, the complete meals. We do have a promo code.
• 46:19
  I think it's promo code Seth. I think people get I think it's 10 or 15 off the order there. They also have seeds, which is good. They have these seed kits, which is also really good. But, yeah, that's always that's really important.
• 46:30
  And so but I wanna hear your thoughts on gold and silver because, actually, we were talking, and I was holding up this I I keep this on my desk. It's just a little 10 ounce silver bullion. It's like a rough poured. I just I like the feel of it, but to me, it's like this is money. But, obviously, you know, and we watch the show, know, of course, Seth is a big fan of gold and silver.
• 46:49
  Of course, is. I'm always talking about it, but what are your thoughts? Because you're you're someone that you're successful. You've got a lot of different investments and different things, but you're from knowing you, you're you're very, very shrewd in a good way. Like, you really are very smart with what your money is doing.
• 47:05
  I I I have a lot to learn from you in that perspective. So what's your what are your thoughts on precious metals?
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So just to kinda like give you my background, I've always known like, I've been at the beginning of things. Like, I was at the beginning of social media. I invested. I was, you know, before social media was big, I was at the beginning of, you know, communication.
• 47:30
  Because when Judge Green in 1984, Judge Green broke up the bell, I was like, Ah, communication's gonna be huge. That's how come I got into communication? So, I've been in communication since 'eighty five because, you know, I realized that communication was going be big because of that decision that the judge made. Then, you know, before even cell phones were out and when cell phones kicked off, I was there, and I started a cell phone company. So anyways, so now my gut feeling is telling me, and this is what I'm giving advice to all my friends and family, because all my friends and family says, you know, the next time you find a good deal, Tina, let us know, even though they didn't listen to me with Bitcoin when it was like $3 a Bitcoin.
• 48:12
  I've told everybody to buy Bitcoins at that time and they didn't listen to me.
• 48:16
  Seth Holehouse: Well, because you were mining Bitcoin back then, right?
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yes. Still. Still. Yeah.
• 48:21
  It's harder to mine now. Yeah. But anyways, the sad thing is for me, is like when I get a Bitcoin at $2 at the time, and then it went up to 20, I sold. And it's like, man, if I just would have held on with a lot of my Bitcoins, but that's another story. But the thing is, is my instincts, I trust my instincts, and my instincts are telling me, and I've told all my friends and family that if you want to turn $100,000 into $1,000,000 in twenty four month from now by gold and silver.
• 48:54
  That is my instincts and my instincts have never failed me throughout my whole career. And that's what I've been doing. Every single dollar, everything that I have that's leftover or, you know, selling some stocks today is I'm just buying as much as silver and gold as I can. And I'm not buying the paper. I used to buy paper until I learned from from some of the like Steve Guell, he's like, paper.
• 49:27
  He's like, you know that they're selling that same paper to a hundred other people. And I was like, oh, okay. He's like, you gotta have the real thing. So I started buying the coins and silver and platinum as well. So my recommendation, if you wanna have something that's gonna be 10 times what it is today, invest it and then wait it out for twenty four to thirty six months, and you're going to be sitting really, you're going to be doing really, really well.
• 49:57
  No matter what you have, whether you have $10,000 extra or a million dollars, I'm I'm putting everything that I can in silver and gold right now.
• 50:07
  Seth Holehouse: Yeah. I I have actually had the same opinion. Actually, I just, an hour ago, just finished up an interview with a guy named David Jensen, who's one of the world's experts on understanding the the especially the gold and silver paper markets and how they've been used to suppress the gold and silver prices. And what he's all the signs to him are showing that the pay the paper manipulation markets are actually being destroyed, that they're on the verge of collapsing because it it's a bank run, but it's a silver run. It's a gold run.
• 50:37
  There's a lot of people like yourself that used to just buy paper. They're now seeing, wait. This paper isn't worth the paper it's printed on. Right? Because this same paper has been sold to a couple hundred people, so they're now demanding physical delivery, and it's breaking that system.
• 50:54
  And so his perspective is that, you know, gold and silver, it's not even about, like, okay, how many Fiat dollars will it be worth? It's about the fact that in the future, like, this will be the money. This will be the store of value that you might you might have a 10 ounce bar like this that you could trade for a car. You know, it's no longer something you'd even value in a fiat currency because, you know, if a loaf of bread is a thousand dollars from hyperinflation, what's it matter if silver's worth $10,000? But if you know that a low you could trade an ounce of silver for an entire cow, that's how that's how you establish the the value.
• 51:29
  So I'm I'm in the same the same boat with that. Like, absolutely. So, Tina, as we're we're wrapping up the actual and final actually, I'll throw in there too is that if people do or if if folks are looking for someone to work with, I do have a a partner, Colin Plume with Noble Gold. So the website is goldwithseth.com. So if you have someone you're working with that you trust, great.
• 51:52
  I'm not trying to change that, but if you're new to the game and you're looking for a trustworthy company, I've vetted a lot of companies and Noble Gold I trust. So gold with Seth, and the phone number will also be in the description below. So, Tina, I guess, I'm wrapping up here. Do you have any closing thoughts for people as we're we're finishing here?
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, you know, wisdom, take some wisdom, I think, from this podcast and invest well. You can't go wrong there. And then also if you need communication, go to sat123.com. If you type in the word Seth in the box of where it tells you promo code, you can get a free bulletproof Fair Day backpack, which is amazing to have.
• 52:38
  Obviously, you know, Fair Day blocks your signal, your location, so you have privacy and you get a bulletproof, so it's really nice to have. There it is.
• 52:49
  Seth Holehouse: Actually, I have one of those too. That that's not my, you know, my my carrying bag because it's a backpack. It's Faraday, so it protects my laptop and everything, but also it's got a a Kevlar plate in there, which is great. And actually, so I also have these that I use that I store the sat phones in these little Faraday, bags. So this way, if, for instance, there is a grid down scenario when the phone is inside the little bag, even if there's an EMP that goes off, this phone will not be destroyed by that.
• 53:18
  So, super, super critical. Like, Faraday, EMP, like, we we we may do a whole other episode on on EMP because that's a EAP EMP grid down scenario. Those are really significant, but having these little bags are great. And so I'll pull up the website again one more time. Sat one two three s a or SAT123.
• 53:39
  All the details are on there. Yeah. We do have promo code sat set up for people. And yeah. I mean, Tina, thank you for what you're doing.
• 53:48
  Again, I'll I'll say it one last time. I I really believe that having some form of satellite communication, whether it's a Bivy stick, a Satphone, a Starlink, whatever it is. The reason why I have two of these, I have is because if I'm traveling, I can take the the Satphone with me, leave the Bivy stick with my wife. That way we can get ahold of each other if we need to. But you having even just one of these things at $60 a month, just in case, it could be it could literally be the difference between your entire region and your your neighbors not having communication for potentially weeks, or being able to to text someone and say, hey, mom, I'm okay.
• 54:28
  We're alright. Or, we need insulin. We need food. We need water. Whatever it is, life absolute lifesaver.
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. That's such a pleasure being on your show. Thank you so much, and may God bless you, and may God bless the audience.
• 54:45
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